On Sunday, July 10, 2011 11:23 PM, Always Learning wrote: > >> Christopher Chan wrote: >>> >>> Redhat has gone BEYOND the GPL. The GPL only requires that you make the >>> source and build scripts available to those that you distribute to. Nor >>> are you required to make the source/build scripts available for free. >>> The fact that you can get your grubby hands on the source rpms without >>> even downloading RHEL let alone use/install RHEL is testimony to the >>> fact that Redhat does not need to and has never tried to undermine any >>> would be enemy/competitor. Think about it. > > 1. Red Hat, commercially, has to survive as a financially viable entity. > Meaning it must make a profit. > > 2. Competitors especially large ones like Oracle potentially, if not > actually, threaten Red Hat's profit making ability. The potential or > actual damage to Red Hat's profits may be small but the more established > Oracle's Red Hat Linux becomes, the greater the financial damage to the > essential profit making ability of Red Hat. Reduced profits at Red Hat > can adversely affect Red Hat's operation and inevitably Centos will > suffer to our detriment. > > 3. Therefore, contrary to your assertion > > " Redhat does not need to and has never tried to undermine any > " would be enemy/competitor. Think about it." > > Red Hat must always consider how to "undermine any would be > enemy/competitor" because, ultimately, Red Hat's own survival depends on > exactly that type of action. No profits = No Red Hat. > > > Redhat closing their bugzilla to clients only or merging all patches to the kernel they maintain for RHEL into one and sans comments is undermining the competition? Oracle can still get the source rpm and rebuild the very same kernel that Redhat puts out there. Redhat making Oracle do their own legwork as respects kernel maintenance and finding/fixing bugs outside of Redhat knowledge is undermining the competition? You just don't get Redhat do you?